Wednesday, March 17, 2010

I'd like to thank my reader Joey for submitting this ad.For my non-American readers, March Madness is the college basketball championship tournament. It's played out over 3 long weekends, and the first weekend, in particular, is non-stop games on TV from Thursday morning to Sunday night.

I notice that this promotion is happening in Austin, right during SXSW, when half the world is there. If they set up a tent somewhere in the bar district, hired a band, and put out a keg of beer, they'd have more business than they could handle.

In keeping with the Stan Lee-like spirit of the tournament ("March Madness," "Sweet Sixteen," "Elite Eight," "Final Four"), they should have made their title more alliterative. "Vas Vivisection," or "Deferens Demolition" or "Schlong Schlashing" or something like that.

I wonder whether the bags of frozen peas used for icing down the aching junk get put back into the freezer. I mean, what do guys do? Do they throw them out? My theory is that single dudes put them back in the freezer and married dudes throw them out so as to avoid grossing out the wife, and that in either case it'll be a long time before they can stand the sight of frozen vegetables.

Urologists usually cater to men, who usually like sports, hence the sports references/ads for urology stuff. In Atlanta, there was a urology group that had bill boards with a baseball bat and two balls, then the next spring it was "fertilize your lawn, not your wife" and a green grass.

once upon a time, long ago, first hubby and i had a baby. and she was smart and funny and he decided to *ahem* persuade me to ok his vasectomy because HE wanted no more children. (he was only 24, i was 20.) and lo, he was snipped.

and lo, once he came home, our darling little toddler ran up to him because she loved her daddy, and climbed in his lap where he was sitting there whining. wearing her cowboy boots. and stomping around. i was never so proud to be a mama in all my life. ;)

I'm a urologist in oregon. It was our group that started this a few years ago (though that's not our ad above). (I wish I could claim it was my idea!) what started as a joke led to a discussion which then led to a small local ad campaign. the media picked it up and it exploded (pardon the term) in popularity. We are getting reports from other groups all aound the country duplicating the concept.Last year, someone sent me a translated news story from a paper in china stating: "american urologists urge vasectomies for college students."

What a comeback to the spouse sick of sports, who hoped hubby would spend time on yardwork: Sorry, dear, the doc says I can't do much except lie on the couch and watch TV, and you DID want me to have this procedure, so...

Welcome to my whining!

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